I hate Mark Mandel. Sure - he is easy to hate in general. Just ask him to say cache and you will have plenty of reasons. That being said - I have a new reason to hate him tonight. Because of a simple, offhand remark about ORM and ColdFusion debugging,...

A reader asked for help using Brightcove's API to upload a video using ColdFusion. While I do not plan on writing a full wrapper, or going into great detail, I thought a quick blog post on what he tried, and why it failed, could help others who plan on...

I spent the last week learning FW/1 (you can see my quick review here) and while - in general - it was pretty easy - one thing was a bit confusing for me. I had a hard time wrapping my head around the logic of: 1) User submits a form. 2)...

I've mentioned my admiration for author China Mieville before. I think he is the best writer alive today. I've yet to read a book of his that wasn't both well written and incredibly fascinating. It's been a while since his last book so I was pleasantly...

Back in July Sean Corfield released a new framework: Framework One, or FW/1. Sean has a nice blog entry talking about why he created it. The basic gist is that Sean was looking to create something simpler and more direct than the frameworks in use in...